Kaja Kallas says Russian drone strike on train "was clearly a message to the western world"

A Russian drone struck a passenger train near Ukraine’s border with Poland, shortly after a separate train carrying former British prime minister Boris Johnson, former CIA director David Petraeus, former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt and European security advisers had crossed, Ukrainian Railways said. The operator said the earlier train may have been the target. Responding to the attack, EU chief diplomat Kaja Kallas, speaking at an Arctic conference in Finland, urged Europe to keep standing with Ukraine despite the strike. Kallas’s spokesperson condemned the attack and pointed to a recent EU decision to release €6.1bn as part of a larger loan to Ukraine. The overnight assault involved more than 450 Russian drones and missiles, killed at least six people and injured over 40, Ukraine’s air force said, as EU diplomats met in Brussels on sanctions renewal.